Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I was off this week, so I had some time to catch up on some projects that I've been meaning to do. I finished up the bookmarkers that I made for a customer on Monday, then I put up all my Christmas decorations and borrowed my friend's kid to help decorate the Christmas tree, and yesterday I worked on this retirement book. A friend at work will be retiring next month and I wanted to make her something special. So I made her this retirement word book. My husband said it would make him feel old. I think he equates retirement with old age. I think of it more as an accomplishment to finally enter into a new stage of life and to celebrate all the good work you've done in your lifetime. At least that was what I was trying to go for when I made this. I used the Cricut Design Studio Software to make the word book and most of the images came off my new Child's year cartridge. I've been having a lot of fun playing with this new cartridge. It is becoming one of my favorites. I have to go to the store to buy some stuff for tommorrow's dinner, so without further ado, here are the pictures. Enjoy and have a blessed week of thankfulness.